page_title: Truckee River
section_title: Recreation
hierarchical_section_title: Truckee River / Recreation
caption_attribution_description: English: Author: M. Karrell Young Copyright 2006. http://blogsf.squarespace.com/
context_page_description: The Truckee River is a river in the U.S. states of California and Nevada. The river flows northeasterly and is 121 miles long. The Truckee is the sole outlet of Lake Tahoe and drains part of the high Sierra Nevada, emptying into Pyramid Lake in the Great Basin. Its waters are an important source of irrigation along its valley and adjacent valleys.
context_section_description: The river is heavily used for recreation, including whitewater rafting and fly fishing.  A common rafting run is the River Ranch Run. Starting from the outlet gates at Lake Tahoe stretching about 3 miles (4.8 km), the run ends at the River Ranch Restaurant.  These rapids are almost all class 1 and class 2. In downtown Reno the river has been sculpted into a half-mile Class 2/3 whitewater park, and is used mainly for kayaking.
  The Truckee River is western Nevada's largest river. It supports a large sport fishing population each year. Kim Tisdale, of the Nevada Department of Wildlife (NDOW), is the state's Western Regions Fishery Supervisor; she commented that NDOW's goal is for a catch rate of one to two fish per hour in the Truckee. To accomplish this, NDOW stocks a total of 105,000 trout per year. 70,000 of those are native Lahontan cutthroat trout (Oncorhynchus clarki henshawi) and the rest are non-native Rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss).  The Truckee also boasts a healthy, self-sustaining non-native Brown trout (Salmo trutta) population.
caption: The Truckee River near Truckee, California.
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